Selection of Network Protocols for Internet of Things Applications: A Review

Internet of Things (IoT) constitutes the next step in the field of technology, bringing enormous changes in industry, medicine, environmental care, and urban development. Various challenges are to be met in forming this vision, such as technology interoperability issues, security and data confidentiality requirements, and, last but not least, the network protocols. Network Connectivity is the backbone for Internet of Things as it dynamically affects the way how Internet of Things applications are designed. Currently, there are various standard system protocols which include Bluetooth LE, 3GPP, LTE, 6LoWPAN, ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4. and they define how the physical objects, or the gadgets communicate with one another and to the cloud or to the gateway device. Further, there are loads of drivers for choosing the most appropriate remote convention, toward one side there is mechanical push to design imaginative arrangements and on the opposite side there show up client requests for improving the IoT applications. This paper proposes A network design space is proposed in this paper which uses the innovation and knowledge management techniques aimed to help the users to select a desired wireless protocol. The design is visualized into a three-dimension space where all the standard protocol options can be realized or studied based along these three axes - duty cycle, device to gateway distance and battery life. This paper proposes a design which is innovative with combinations of network protocols providing various choices in selecting the desired technology which is required by the applications of Internet of Things.